[Openstreetmap] landsat background to the static renderer

[SteveC]

* @ 15/07/05 12:03:34 PM Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk wrote:
> Hello Steve,
> 
> How did you grab the landsat - did you use the exact same URL I did in
> osm-editor?

Yep, with a bit of jiggery pokery to work out the bounding box. Have a
look in the html.

> I say that as the data seems to be returned from NASA much quicker than in
> osm-editor.

They have more money, servers and arn't rendering arbitrary vectors.

> Noticed you're using PNG rather than JPEG: did that cut the
> file size significantly?

Jpeg doesn't do transparency. The png is too big, I think. There is
probably a way to give cairo a clue as to the compression level but I
havn't looked...

have fun,

SteveC steve at fractalus.com http://www.fractalus.com/steve/